Maybe a bigger issue is how to stop them without having collateral damage to the constitution.

I always found much of it distracting. Not necessarily the translucent windows and things but the overall look. Why do we still need window borders? We've got MacOS without borders, xfce windows w/o borders, etc. Similarly, shrink down that title bar and don't make it glossy. The fake 3D look is pretty archaic.

You can skip it, it's just clear at first glance how to do so. This feature convinced me that the primary goal for Windows 8 was to push their store, they want a piece of the pie that Apple was getting with their store (which no one on the mac would ever have dreamed of using at the time). Consider that even after installing without getting their Microsoft account, that some apps still want to use it. Ie, Mail refuses to work without also giving your Microsoft account in addition to your real mail account, you can not download any free apps without the account (though you can get the free 8.1 upgrade w/o out it).

And you know this place must exist somewhere. If not San Francisco then in Portland.

They've had silly FOSS names for some time now, over a decade. Not just code names for a release but actual daily use programs. Orage, synaptic, avahi, thunar, dolphin, konqueror, etc.

Not like good old classic Unixy names like grep, man, awk, sed, and the like. Everyone know what those meant.

I like the flat looks. Aero was the thing I liked least about Windows 7.

Doing things the old fashioned way is expensive. That's a good thing. This means the government should stop and think first before bugging someone. They can't bug every single person, especially with a warrant for each, which is why they want the inexpensive solution of tapping into the central phone system. So pay for the tech, send actual technicians into the field, do a lot of undercover work, and the government will start focusing on the important targets.

That explains the lag I had all weekend.

I like Pascal, it's what we taught before C took over. The biggest problem for Pascal overall is that it was not well standardized early on. There have been standardization efforts, but the earliest ones took out too much useful stuff (ie, better string handling), and by the time of better standards it had dropped popularity enough that it never caught up.

The extra typing is a non issue really. By that regards, everyone should love Python yet people complain about not having to put in braces... I found Pascal to be highly readable and C takes a lot more familiarity before you can read it easily.

No, I don't think someone should "just get over the fact that...". Don't excuse your fellow troglogdytes, hold them to account.
In many cases things cross the line from being creeped out and into very clearly illegal territory, and this case sounds like one.
This is not about some construction workers whistling at someone walking by, this is about one's own professor coercing a student.

In real life you can't say "fuckoff" because the response may be "you're fired" or "I thought you wanted to get that A" or other things like that. The "fuckoff" response very often leads to a much more intense harrassment. As long as we tolerate this it will continue, we need to point fingers at people who do the harrassment and stop telling women to ignore it. Bosses of these harassers should fire them (whether construction worker or senior partner), their friends should not make excuses for them, and so forth.

This should NEVER be something one gets used to and deals with, it should NEVER be a case of students having to grow a thicker skin.

Equality does not mean that one side has to emulate the dominant side: ie, women shouldn't have to act like men to be equal, racial minorities shouldn't have to "fit in" to get jobs.

Though by many insider accounts, Lucas did not have an overall story arc planned from the start, but that is how he likes to present himself. The first movie stands by itself, he was absolutely uncertain there would ever be a sequel, he wasn't even sure it would be popular. The other movies were tacked on later and people who worked on the films said that major script changes were happening during filiming. I will admit that he probably had some larger vision imagined but I seriously doubt it was at any level of detail.

Personally, I don't see the big deal about the second movie. The first one was great; it stood on its own, it kept a consistent thematic feeling, etc. The second one was just a bridge, no beginning and no end. Lucas still had an ego in check on the first movie and felt like it was written by someone who loved movies. The second movie felt like a sequel.

Don't forget the second two movies, Lucas was making major plot changes during filming. The whole bit about Vader being Luke's father was one such last minute addition. The first movie was the best because it was the only one that was intended to stand on it's own and not just as a part of a continuing-but-unplanned series.

A preemptive strike against leisure suits.

Those people with no preconceived positions may be the ones most likely to be influenced by the large bags of cash showing up in their mail.